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| a sign or symbol that communicated meaning with a combination of content and form |
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| a second,third,tenth or even hundredth attempt to film a given shot |
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| a subgenre of the comedy genre in which two people fall in love with each other by going through a series of mishaps and confusions |
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| The faint, barely audible sounds of the particular room in which dialogue has been recorded; room tone is recorded separately from dialogue |
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| the projection of live-action footage, frame by frame, onto an animator's drawing table so that he or she can trace the figures with great precision |
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| a preliminary, edited version of a film that includes all the major story elements but without any fine-tuning of the visual and audio tracks |
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| a day's worth of processed but unedited footage freshly back from the lab |
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| a unit of dramatic action that takes place in one location during a single time period |
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| The music, usually nondiegetic, that accompanies the images |
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| a formal, written breakdown of a film's narrative into its component parts |
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| a component of film narrative that maintains a unity of time, place, or dramatic action but introduces a discontinuity |
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| a single shot that serves, seemingly paradoxically, as its own sequence or scene |
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| Shot/Reverse-shot Pattern |
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| an editing technique that records the interaction between two characters, usually a conversation, who are facing one another with one series of shots often taken over the shoulder of one character and another series of shots taken over the shoulder of the other character |
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| The basic element of filmmaking- a piece of film run through the camera, exposed and developed. |
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| A specialized mike that must be pointed directly ta a sound source but that can pick up sound at a great distance |
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| a subgenre of the horror film characterized by the menacing presence of a psychotic who wields a butcher knife, meat cleaver etc etc to bloody and fatal effect |
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| an aural transition from one scene to the next in which the sound of the second scene is heard at the tail end of the image track of the first |
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| an early method of synchornizing sound to motion picture images in which sound was recorded on phonograph discs and played back when the film was screened |
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| the dominant method of synchronizing sound to motion picture images in which sound is converted to optical signals and placed on a soundtrack of the film itself |
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| that portion of the cinematic medium that contains aural information (dialogue,music,sound effects) |
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| any image or element within the image that has been produced by extraordinary technical means |
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| a subgenre of the horror film that features as its main convention the liberal use of stage blood |
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